Originally Posted by
bruce19
I have heard some people say that LeMond was also doping. Is there any evidence of that? I've never seen any but if there is some I'd like to know. Might change my opinion of him.
None. In fact, almost all of his contemporaries, including Cyrille Guimard and Fignon, who had no real love for him after the 1989 Tour, maintained that he always raced clean. And Fignon had nothing else nice to say about him in his autobiography. Koechli, his DS on La Vie Claire, also says that he was always clean.
In 1991 he was in yellow heading into the Pyrenees, and was dropped on the Tourmalet by guys he used to ride away from, including a guy named Indurain who weighed in excess of 185 pounds, and struggled to crack the top 100 in the Tour, just two years prior. EPO had arrived, and LeMond had no idea of what it could do.
Armstrong is reported to have offered $300,000 to anyone who could come forward with evidence that LeMond doped. No one stepped forward to collect.